[Illustration: Figure 1.--Reproduction of a page from original Arabic manuscript indexed as "Cod. N.F. 476A" at Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna. Courtesy Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek.] _Probably the earliest independent work in Arabic Spain to embrace the whole of medical knowledge of the time is the encyclopedic al-Tasrīf, written in the late 10th century by Abū al-Qāsim al-Zahrāwī, also known as Abulcasis. Consisting of 30 treatises, it is the only known work of al-Zahrāwī and it brought him high prestige in the western world._…
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